Through the faith of the operation of God. By a firm belief on the
agency of God in raising him up; that is, a belief of the fact that God
has raised him from the dead. The resurrection of Christ is often
represented as the foundation of all our hopes; and, as he was raised
from the grave to die no more, so, in virtue of that, we are raised from
the death of sin to eternal spiritual life. The belief of this is
shown by our baptism, whatever be the mode in which that ordinance
is performed, and as well shown in one mode as another.